finance

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The science of the management of money and other assets.

n. The management of money, banking, investments, and credit.

n. Monetary resources; funds, especially those of a government or corporate body.

n. The supplying of funds or capital.

transitive v. To provide or raise the funds or capital for: financed a new car.

transitive v. To supply funds to: financing a daughter through law school.

transitive v. To furnish credit to.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The management of money and other assets.

n. The science of management of money and other assets.

n. the monetary resources, especially those of a public entity or a company.

v. To provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking; to back; to support.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The income of a ruler or of a state; revenue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources.

n. The science of raising and expending the public revenue.

v. To conduct the finances of; to provide for, and manage, the capital for; to financier.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To conduct financial operations; manage finances in either a public or a private capacity: often used in a derogatory sense.

To manage financially; be financier for; furnish with finances or money.

n. A fine; forfeit; ransom.

n. plural Revenue; funds in the treasury, or accruing to it; resources of money: as, the finances of the government were in a low condition.

n. plural The income or resources of an individual.

n. The science of monetary business or affairs; the system by which the income of a nation, state, or corporation is raised and administered; pecuniary management in general: as, the study of political economy and finance; the system of finance pursued by an administration, or a bank, corporation, or other company.

He has conducted the king's affairs in a manner so contrary to that of his predecessors that he is at this moment suspected by the clergy, hateful to the grandees of the state, hounded to the death by the heads of finance (_la haute finance_), dishonored amongst the magistracy.

For example, someone who has come up through finance and wants to move into manufacturing, how can they show their company that what they have worked on in finance is applicable to what they want to do in [another area]?

If you are very well-educated and very well-connected, if you're at the right place at the right time, if you are in finance, particularly, or if you are a CEO, if you are a top executive of a big company, you are doing marvelously well.